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during the Summer of 1892, L. Bruner. Report on insects of the season 

 in Iowa, H. Osborn. Entomological notes for the season of 1892, M. E. 

 Murtfeldt. Report on experiments in apiculture, 1892, J. H. Larrabee. 



SCIENCE. New York, June 23, 1893. Influence of parasites on other 

 Insects, G. C. Davis. 



COMPTE RENDU. SOCIETE DE BIOLOGIE. Paris, June 10, 1893. Re- 

 sistance of the scorpion to unfavorable conditions of life, J. Noe. 



REVUE SCIENTIFIQUE DU BOURBONNAIS, vi, 6. Moulins, June, 1893. 

 A parasite of the Ants Elasmosoma berolinense Ruth., 1'Abbe Pierre. 



UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA. Agricultural Experiment Station. Bull. 

 No. 28. St. Anthony Park, Minn., March, 1893. The classification of 

 insects and their relation to agriculture, O. Lugger, 143 pp., Si figs. 



NEW MEXICO COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND MECHANIC ARTS. Ag- 

 ricultural Experiment Station. Bulletin No. 9. Las Cruces, N. Mex., 

 December, 1892. Insecticides and their appliances, C. H. T. Townsend, 

 25 pp., 20 figs., i pi. 



WEST VIRGINIA AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENT STATION. Bulletin No. 

 31. Morgantown, W. Va., April, 1893. Catalogue of West Virginia 

 Scolytidae and their enemies, with list of trees and shrubs attacked, A. 

 D. Hopkins. 



UNTERSUCHUNGEN UBER DIE FAUNA DER GEWASSER BOHMKNS, I. 

 Metamorphose der Trichopteren II, Serie, von Prof. Fr. Klapalek (Ar- 

 chiv d. Naturwis. Landesdurchforschung von Bohmen, viii, 6). Prague, 

 1893, 143 pp., numerous figures. 



DlE PlLZGARTEN EINIGER SUDAMERIKANISCHER AMEISEN VOn Alfred 



Moller. Jena, Gustav Fischer, 1893, 127 pp,, 7 pis., 4 text figures. 



THE LIFE OF A BUTTERFLY. By Samuel H. Scudder. Received from 

 Henry Holt & Co., Publishers, New York. This little book of 182 pages, 

 with four plates and an index, treats of the life-history of Anosia plex- 

 ippus, the milkweed butterfly. The character of the book is well sketched 

 out in the author's preface, which reads as follows: " In the following 

 work I have tried to present in untechnical language the story of the life 

 of one of our most conspicuous American butterflies. At the same time 

 by introducing into the account of its anatomy, development, distribute m, 

 enemies and seasonal changes, some comparisons with the more or less 

 dissimilar structure and life of other butterflies, and particularly of our 

 native forms, I have endeavored to give, in some fashion and in brief 

 space, a general account of the lives of the whole tribe. By using a single 

 butterfly as a special text, one may discourse at pleasure of many." This 

 book should be a great service to the beginner, as it is very entertainingly 

 and instructively written, and, as the author states, is a guide to the life- 

 histories of all butterflies. It is divided into eleven chapters, the first of 



